Quoting: AnonymousSensFan
Dellandea had 9g. It's a little bit less than 20g. Do non-5on5 goals not count? Hardest thing in the game is scoring goals, and players get paid for that more than assists. I don't know if he plays center too, but I looked at the most recent acgms on this site for Dallas, and their fans seem to have him at 3/4RW. So Pinto gents more there too because he is 2c/3c.
What argument are you making to convince him to sign a 1.1? His leverage is that they NEED his services, which he can withhold until he gets a contract he likes. Sokolov has no leverage, Pinto does. Are you saying to him to sign cheap and you'll pay him more next time? What if he gets injured or GMPD gets fired taking that "next deal" with him? This is a situation of their making. They had the cap space to sign him, amd decided to sign tarasenko instead. They could have sign Pinto and a cheaper winger, but they didn't.
Yeah but goals are only 1 factor. 5 of Pinto goals were on the PP, which I'm sure Dellandrea could have scored if he played 168:48 PP minutes with the likes of Claude Giroux, Alex DeBrincat and Derick Brassard
We can agree that Pinto will become the better and more important player but as of now, he doesn't have much leverage, no arbitration rights and could take a discount to help the team fit under the cap. If he is promised a big fat contract next year, why not? This is what happened with Labanc
But I understand that maybe he won't want to take that small risk, that could be offset easily if he has a good season and then plenty of leverage to get a better contract.
All that being said, the best solution for Ottawa might actually be to trade Dominik Kubalik because thanks to his contract, he is valuable and would return a decent asset. Dorion made the choice to sign Tarasenko so they're going all in with this
Quoting: AnonymousSensFan
My comments about Greig were to illustrate that he's still young and has not proven he can play a full 82 season. So he can't be counted on being a pinto replacement yet. I'm sure his metrics are nice and all, but you know how you win? By scoring goals, which Pinto does.
Actually, you win by outscoring the opposition. Pinto's line got DESTROYED 5v5 last season.
I was not talking about Greig replacing Pinto (which he could and frankly would do better, I have been higher on Greig for 2 years now)
I was entirely commenting based on what you said "
Greig had issues playing a full NHL season", which I still have no idea was based on what